Packing and shipping device



5, 1933. s. R. KOONS PACKING AND SHIPPING DEVICE Filed Feb. 12. 1931 v 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 SYDNEY R- K 5 M mi Wm.

ATTO RN EY Aug. 15, 1933. s. R. KOONS PACKING AND SHIPPING DEVICE Filed Feb. 12-, 1951 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 Fla. 6

Aug. 15, 1933. s. R. KOONS PACKING AND SHIPPING DEVICE Filed Feb. 12, 1931 I5 Sheets-Sheet 3 EYDNEY R KUUNE ATTO RN EY Patented Aug. 15, 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT orrice 3 Claims.

The present invention relates to an improvement in packing and shipping devices, especially foldable packets or wrappers for shipping articles of irregular shape and contour having smoothly-finished surfaces or polished portions which must be thoroughly protected and safeguarded during handling and shipment thereof. For example, the present device or packet is particularly useful for shipping engine valves of the poppet type having beveled seating surfaces and cylindrical stems which have been accurately machined and ground, the device or packet being designed and constructed to expedite wrapping and packing operations and to fold readily into the same general shape as the valve, with the walls of the device buttressed or braced against each other on angular lines to provide a rigid and strong receptacle or package. The device is also made to cushion or absorb jars and shocks and to permit it to be folded or wrapped closely against both the head and stem of the valve so that the valve will be confined snugly and tightly therein. When folded the device or packet also provides an angular package with flat sides which permit any number of such packages to be compactly assembled and tightly packed within wooden shipping boxes, crates or the like. In that connection be it understood that the weight and irregular shape of the valve and package must be considered in packing and transporting such goods together or in bulk, and that the present packing device has been especially constructed to reduce the hazards of injury to the valves during packing operations and when shipped together in bulk, and also to permit packing to be accomplished expeditiously at a low cost as will hereinafter be more fully explained.

In the accompanying drawings, Fig. l is a plan view of my improved shipping and packing device, and Fig. 2 an edge View thereof. Figs. 3 and 4 show the device folded upon and enclosing a valve, Fig. 3 being a cross section on horizontal line 33 of Fig. 4, and Fig. 4 being a side elevation of the same parts. Fig. 5 is a sectional view in plan on horizontal line 5-5 of Fig. 6, and Fig. 6 is a sectional view vertically through the packet and a side view of the valve enclosed therein. Figs. 7 and 8, are perspective views of the same packet and valve, unfolded and folded, including a sheet of wrapping paper which may be used therewith to bind and secure the parts together. Fig. 9 is a perspective view of a modified form of the invention made in two pieces or parts, and Fig. 10 is a sectional view of this modified form of device folded and. wrapped around a valve.

Now, referring to Figs. 1 to 6, the shipping and packing device therein delineated consists of a fiat piece A of cardboard of corrugated or cellular construction, having a square or rectangular base or central portion 2 bounded on its four sides by triangular or tapering border portions or wings 3, each of which includes a relatively long and narrow arm or tongue 4 extending radially in respect to base portion 2 when unfolded and lying flat in the same plane therewith. The plane surfaces or facing-s of piece A are thin fiat sheets 5 of paper or cardboard glued to a corrugated inner core f cardboard so that a pliable but relatively stiff body is provided which possesses cushioning properties. This composite piece of material is creased or scored on straight lines at definite- 1y fixed places therein to permit the wings 3 and arms 4 to be folded into columnar form having a hollow flaring base of larger dimensions- Thus, the fold lines between the respective portions of the devices are formed in multiple by straight creases 7 at the four sides of the square base portion 2 and parallel creases 8 at the juncture of each arm 4 with its respective wing 3. An additional crease 9 may also be used with advantage in someinstances, as shown in Fig. 9, depending upon whether a one-piece or a two'- piece structure is desired, or in case a different form of valve head is to be enveloped by the wings 3. Appropos, it may be here stated that this invention has been especially created for a valve B made of an alloy of metal which comprises a circular head b having a beveled edge 1) accurately finished or ground, and a cylindrical stem 1) which is also smoothly finished.

The foldable wing portions 3 are of equal area and have short straight connecting portions 10 where joined to the middle area or square base portion 2, while the four arms or elongated portions l are adapted to be folded in pairs, one pair being made of narrower width than the other so that the wider arms may be folded to overlap the straight edges of the narrower arms and bring the plane faces of the wider arms in solid abutting relation against the straight squared edges of the narrower arms, see Fig. 3. Accordingly, each flat arm 4 may be folded, pressed and fastened tightly against the valve stem b" and buttressed against each other at corner points, and the triangular wing portions 3 may be folded into inclined bracing relations with each other at their meeting edges and relatively to such arms and the square base portion 2, see Figs. 4 and 6. Valve head I) is circular, and the angle'of inclination of each wing portion 4, when folded, may be the same or approximately the same as the angle of the beveled edge b of the head so that this circular head will be engaged and firmly held at four equi-distant radial points by the four wing portions 4, see Fig. 5. On the other hand, the beveled edge I) of head I) is spaced apart from the remaining enveloping areas of the inclined walls or Wings 3, that is, at each corner in the triangular hollow space formed by the four folded wings 3, and each wing is also spaced apartfrom the neck portion b' of the, valve, whereas .the end of the valve head is firmly seated upon the cushioning base portion 2. Thus, when this packing and shipping device is folded snugly and tightly around the valve head and its stem,,and..the four arms 4 are tied by cords 11 or fa'stened' together by other means, say as delineated: in ,Figsad and 6, the valve is completely enveloped and cushioned by protecting walls, whichthough spaced apart in major areas from the valve head; and -stem).

nevertheless prevent the valve from shifting laterally or longitudinally in the package and tvith cornplet e- .protection to thelhighly-finished surfaces of the.valve.-; Z:' 1

, Theprotection to the valveaffordedxby the use of this packagealso begins with and involves the making andpacking operations; .Thus,hwhen the valves areground and completed they are'taken singly by the stern;and deposited: in" an upright position upon the central base -portion:2 of,=the packing: device whilethebase portion is loosely seated abovea chamber, pocket, or means spaced to admit thesquarabase portion 2 when pressure is. applied downwardly upon the-valve and the base portion 2 is forced-into the chamber, pocket or space-havingthe proper dimensionsto receive it., Thissimple step folds the. four wings and arms upright into parallel or substantially parallel relationship with the stern, and the four-arms a are then brought together and tiedgeither, by

"' handeorin a tying machine, (thus'comple ting the packing operatin safely and expeditiously for each individual valve. w y y ,In lieu of tying the arms 4 together-bylcord, wireor equivalent means, a sheet 12 of paper may be .used to wrap. the: valve therein and tosecure the arms of the device together, reference being had; to Figs. 7.and.8. In this case, the; paper sheet 12 is first laid upon the unfolded packing device and the valve deposited centrally thereon and upon the middle or base portion of the device as delineated in Fig. 7. Then, the wings and arms are folded upwardly around the valve, and the protruding ends and parts of the paper sheet twisted around the four arms as shown in Fig. 8.

In Figs. 9 and 10 I show a packing or shipping device which is constructed and used in substantially the same way as the device shown in Figs. l-to 6, except that-the device is made of two pieces or parts A- -and -A", respectivelyjeach" having square or rectangular central portions and a pair of wings and arms. These separate pieces are superposed at their middle with the arms on one piece laidat right angles to the arms on the other piece; and theyinay be secured together in that relation byanadhesive or other means.

Whatl. claim, is:

' "1-." Ap'acking'dishijuoing device for valves, conform and partly into' tubu- I tions being-of lesswid-th than o'ther straight portions and 1 all of saidstraight *po'rti'ons being of less width than the'side portion's; to -'pi"ovidea hollowpacket of columnar form having a pyramidalbasep I 3,; A packing or shipping device for valves, eonsisting of a fiat piece of relatively stiff but pliable materialhaving a' pairof" foldabl'e" triangular border portions and narr'owed arms extending-in opposite directions therefrom and including'a second pair offoldabletriangularborderportions and narrowed arms extending at an angl'e'tosaid first pair of fold'able border portions 1 and arms,

creases to base.

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